Things Macintosh

A Guide to “Things Macintosh”
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This page was last updated on 24-September-2012

(Other “Things Mac” pages: UNIX | FOSS/OSHW & 3D-Printing | eMail | Webmaster | Mac OS X | Developer )

Where to find Hardware
Apple’s Online Store NewEgg – One of the best on-line merchants; look here first Crucial – Quality RAM, SSD’s Techworks – Apple certified RAM. Compatible; consistently high quality, but for a premium Other World Computing – They know Mac’s; reasonable shipping rates Monoprice – Cheap cables, adapters, toner, etc.; reasonable shipping rates J&R Music and Computer World Shop[4]Tech eCost – Shipping costs not as good as they appear due to an additional handling-fee “tax” Mac Zone – Watch the shipping costs CDW – They bought out Mac Warehouse; Watch the shipping costs Club Mac – Watch the shipping costs Mac Connection – Watch the shipping costs Fry’s Electronics Mac Mall – Used to be good, but now play games with shipping prices
Price Comparison Services
Price Grabber NexTag (was MacWorld PriceFinder and Mac Buy) ResellerRatings BizRate Shopper Shopzilla Price Scan c\|net My Simon StreetPrices Macinstein’s list of merchants (not a price comparison service)
On-line Vendor Ratings
BizRate Ratings ResellerRatings BBB Online / BBB
LCD Monitors
Monitor buying guide – From c\|net reviews
TV/HDTV/DVR
eyeTV 200 – NTSC and PAL/SECAM analog tuner eyeTV 500 – ATSC digital HDTV tuner TVMicro – EyeTV 2 + analog tuner Review: TVMicro sized right for occasional TV/Mac usage VLC media player – For when QuickTime Player fails to play a file (Open Source) Plextor ConvertX (PX-TV402U) – Personal video recorder for the Mac MythTV – eyeTV-like software for Intel-Linux
Mac mini
123Mac mini– A Mac mini user community Mac mini Hacks– Forum devoted to the mini Mac mini forums Overclocking Apple Mac mini Fastermini.com– Overclock your Mac Mini Mac mini RAM spec’s– From Apple pqi RAM stick– RAM which meets Apple’s spec’s Wikipedia– Mac mini Mini Mate– External HD, powered FW (3) and USB 2.0 (4) hubs in a mini-like case Minimax Hard Drive– External HD with three-port Firewire and three-port USB 2.0 integrated hubs NewerTech miniStack– External HD with two-port Firewire 400 and three-port USB 2.0 integrated hubs
Printers
The Printer Works – Good source for printer parts Fix Your Own Printer – Laser printer repair kits, parts, pretty good troubleshooting and repair info All Laser Service – Laser printer parts, supplies and repair info Computer–Trade–Exchange – Refurbished printer and computer parts Printer Spare Parts – New and Refurbished Printers, Parts, and Supplies The Consumables Depot – Toner & ink cartridges, paper, parts, etc.; Located in the UK LaserWriter Service Error 52 Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ – Printers and Photocopiers section Printer Errors – Various printer errors with some solutions offered Printer Errors – Various printer errors with some solutions offered (same as above; slightly different formatting) Transistor Cross Reference Database – Jerry Russell’s DB at U of WA
Telephony
Phlink – Voicemail and information system PhoneValet – Message Center PhoneHerald – Broadcast Dialer Skype – Almost free phone service eyeBeam – Video SIP softphone application supports open standards for VoIP, Video and Instant Messaging Asterisk – Open Source PBX direct – Telephone dialer for PBX systems
AppleScript
see: Things Macintosh (Developer’s Corner)
Mac OS X Software
see: Things Mac OS X

Home Automation
Indigo– Insteon and X10 (PowerLinc, ApplianceLinc, and LampLinc)
Macintosh Info
Wikitosh! – Everything Apple  from beginner to expert WikiMac – Everyone’s Mac Knowledgebase Applepedia – A Wiki about Apple products and history Apple’s Home Page MacWorld Expo
Macintosh News
Joy of Tech – One way to stay current AppleInsider – Rumor site Mac Observer – News Mac Daily News – News and rumors Macsimum News – News Daring Fireball – Tech news & commentary O’Grady’s Power Page Roughly Drafted – Analysis & commentary MacOS Rumors – Rumor site ThinkSecret – Rumor site MacRumors – Rumor site MacNews – News and Information for Apple users MacSpeedZone – How fast do you want to go? MacInTouch Macworld Macintosh News Network Adam Engst’s “Tidbits” magazine Mac Surfer Mac Addict – Mac related info and links Mac FixIt – Mac Troubleshooting info/tips Macinstein – Mac resource page Mac Resource – Mac News, some software Insanely Great Mac Mac Windows – A web site for Mac-Windows integration About This Particular Macintosh – An eZine/blog about the Personal Computing Experience
Apple History
A History of Apple's Operating Systems – Detailed history of Apple Apple II History – Apple I, ][ & Lisa
Video/QuickTime
Apple QuickTime Guide – Special events, like Jobs' keynote speeches Different District Movies – Apple related QT movies The Apple Collection – Apple related QT movies Some Cool (Mostly Apple-Related) Movies – QT movies QuickTime Information
DVD/CD Media
CD-Recordable FAQ – Everything you could possibly want to know about the standards, media, drives, software, formats, etc. Includes info about audio and some info about DVD, VideoCD and MiniDisc. Care and Handling of CD’s and DVD’s – How to get the most life from your media DVD Media Format Guide – An opinionated guide to various DVD formats; useful though iDVD UnOfficial FAQ – Not about media, per se, but a lot of useful info about iDVD Blank DVD Media Quality Guide – An opinionated guide to blank DVD media; some useful generic info too
Miscellanea
Magical Macintosh Key Sequences – All those poorly documented power user keyboard shortcuts (from boot to shutdown); very good reference Mac Font Vault – Browseable collection of fonts for the Mac Apple ][ Emulators – Apple ][ emulators for Macintosh WebSE - System 7 Simulation – Blast from the past: Classic Mac simulation; fun to see how far we’ve come!
Hardware Info/Vintage Mac’s
Apple’s product spec database Apple Manuals – Hardware and Software Manuals Accelerating your Mac Clock-Chipping (Poor Man’s Accelerator) Mac Mod– Ways to void your warranty Maintaining Older Macs XPostFacto – Install Mac OS X on certain unsupported PPC Mac models Mac 512 – Vintage Mac info and software 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Forums – Also includes PPC & 6502 Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.hardware Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.printing see also: Things Unix – Use BSD Unix or Linux on vintage Mac’s see also: Things Webmastering – Use vintage Mac’s as servers (under UNIX/Linux)

MacOS 8–9

Shareware for Mac OS 8–9
Tex-Edit Plus – Excellent text editor; well supported Drag Thing – Program Launcher BeHierarchic – Apple menu utility - requires Mac OS 8–9 X-Launch – Launcher - requires Mac OS 8–9; not Mac OS X compatible!
Databases for Mac OS 8–9
MySQL – Another port for Classic Mac OS MySQL – see also: Things Webmastering for Mac OS X version and for manuals, interfacing to the web, etc. FileMaker, Inc. – FileMaker Pro Blue World lists – FileMaker Pro ListServs (Subscribe with the "digest" setting to manage mail volume) Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.databases
Sherlock Plugins for Mac OS 8–9
Download plugins: Developer Shed Articles Google; links to pages in English only Google; Mac area, English only Google; BSD-UNIX area, English only Google; Linux area, English only O’Reilly Network Articles

InterNet Software for Mac OS 8–9
iCab – Web browser for Macintosh Fetch – An FTP program StuffIt Expander – Freeware decompression utility NewsReaders.com – A guide to various Mac OS Newsreaders NewsWatcher – A good on-line freeware news reader Hogwasher – Online/Offline commercial news reader Whatroute – traceroute for Mac SETI@home – Uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence iVisit – On-line telephone, video and chat (cross platform). FogCity – The best source for Emailer extras and goodies Emailer-Talk – Mailing list MacSSH – Secure Telnet application for Mac Nifty Telnet SSH – Another secure Telnet application for Mac John's Sketchpad – A little cheesecake for your Mac OS 8-9 startups see also: Things Mac OS X see also: Things Webmastering
Classic on Intel Mac’s
3 Ways to Run Classic on an Intel Mac Mini vMac – “A miniature Macintosh emulator”

Other pages in the “Things” series are:

Things Mac OS X – for Mac OS X GUI related, data security and encryption, etc.
Things UNIX – for Mac OS X CLI related, UNIX tools, Terminal.app, general UNIX, etc.
Things eMail – Mac OS X eMail clients, server info, and SPAM countermeasures
Things Webmastering – for Webmasters, Server Admin’s, HTML, CGI, etc.
Things Macintosh (Developer’s Corner) – resources for Macintosh software developers

This page was last updated on 24-September-2012